With the UK banning nearly all portable electronics in the passenger cabin of airplanes, and many other tech-consuming nations likely to follow suit in the near future, this idea pretty much died on 8/10. The "terrorist threat" seems to be more tied to international travel than domestic, and Connexion was tied to international routes for the most part, we probably won't get any broadband at 30,000 foot love until they devise communications gear which you could borrrow or rent from the airline that was already limited in functionality and "sanitized" to ensure that it was not a threat. That would constitute a pretty significant capital outlay beyond just the connection hardware...likely more than Boeing had in mind.
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chaosrain @ Aug 17th 2006 4:40PM
With the UK banning nearly all portable electronics in the passenger cabin of airplanes, and many other tech-consuming nations likely to follow suit in the near future, this idea pretty much died on 8/10. The "terrorist threat" seems to be more tied to international travel than domestic, and Connexion was tied to international routes for the most part, we probably won't get any broadband at 30,000 foot love until they devise communications gear which you could borrrow or rent from the airline that was already limited in functionality and "sanitized" to ensure that it was not a threat. That would constitute a pretty significant capital outlay beyond just the connection hardware...likely more than Boeing had in mind.